{"id":672025,"date":"2026-01-03T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:13:25","slug":"traffic-eases-on-the-m20-london-bound-between-hythe-and-ashford-after-a-medical-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672025\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic eases on the M20 London-bound between Hythe and Ashford after a medical incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Emergency services attended a \u201cmedical incident\u201d on the M20.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were held at a standstill on the motorway in both directions between Junction 11 A20 (Hythe) and Junction 10 (Ashford) but traffic has since been let go.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 355 297\" alt=\"Traffic is being held on the M20 near Junction 11 (Hythe) due to a medical emergency. Picture: National Highways\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"5L7ZJOFODV9OS4VISPNU.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.20\"\/>Traffic is being held on the M20 near Junction 11 (Hythe) due to a medical emergency. Picture: National Highways<\/p>\n<p>Police say officers were called at 2.54pm to a \u201cmedical incident\u201d and patrol officers attended the scene to assist with lane closures.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>A passerby who was a passenger in a car on the M20 saw a paramedic doing CPR.<\/p>\n<p>The force has now released traffic in both directions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More as we have it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services attended a \u201cmedical incident\u201d on the M20. Motorists were held at a standstill on the motorway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[605,748,393,2418,4884,257,760,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-672025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-ashford","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-folkestone","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-traffic-and-travel","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115833471157833965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}